My blogging friend, Nina Garcia of Sleeping Should Be Easy, has a new book out called Parenting With Purpose! In this practical, eye-opening and action-oriented book, Nina Garcia explains how to use connection to raise well-behaved kids and strengthen your parent-child relationship. You’ll learn: How to diffuse and prevent tantrums and outbursts How to better…
Month: October 2015
4 Early Chapter Book Giveaway! #ScholasticBranches
I’m really excited about this new series of early chapter book from Scholastic called Scholastic Branches. The Branches line is solely made up of series. They want young readers to return to their favorite characters again and again—because that is how they build reading stamina and confidence! There is a Branches book for every kid! According…
Healthy Living for Our Elders #AgingWell
Aetna recently teamed up with Grandparents.com on a survey to find out what healthy means to more than 5,000 Grandparents.com members. There is a strong focus on connections between the past and the future. Many grandparents these days live with family, with almost one in five respondents reporting that they live with children or other family…
Halloween Notebook Novels for Boys & GIVEAWAY!
October is here, and that means Halloween is just around the corner. If you’ve got any Diary of a Wimpy Kid fans in your house, they might like the Desmond Pucket series by Mark Tatulli. Boys (and girls) who like monsters and pranks will identify with Desmond and his friends. And if you’re planning a…
Happy 20th Anniversary to My Husband!
What do we want from love? To be known. To be seen. To be understood. from TEDTalk by Mandy Len Catron Today is my 20th anniversary! Happy anniversary to the love of my life. Twenty years, 3 kids and a dog later, here we are! As my husband always says, “Who would have thunk?” Have…
In Search of The Great Pumpkin
My blogging assignment for The Peanuts Movie delighted my family! We were to go to our favorite UPick farm and search for The Great Pumpkin and anything else that reminded us of The Peanuts Movie which opens November 6th. We enjoyed the New England fall foliage as we drove to Stowe, Massachusetts to Shelburne Farm. We…
8 Great Books for Kids for National Italian American Heritage Month
I didn’t grow up around Italian Americans in Southern California but I am fascinated by their strong sense of La Famiglia. My boxing gym is owned and run by a bevy of Italian American cousins, half-brothers, and brothers who speak a distinct dialect called The Lake language. Their most famous cohort is Matt LeBlanc from…